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Pierre Kattar

Pierre Kattar is an Emmy Award-winning video journalist and documentary filmmaker based in Washington, D.C. He has more than 20 years of experience. He shoots, edits, reports, writes, and narrates his own work.

Pierre has taught Adobe Premiere Pro bootcamps at NPR and the City University of New York (CUNY). He served as an associate professor of video journalism at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in Washington, D.C. He now teaches advanced multimedia production to master's students at George Washington University. For Radio Boot Camp, he teaches Cut the Noise: Editing Video Podcasts in Premiere Pro.

His stories have taken him from Paris during the Charlie Hebdo attacks to Libya's secret migrant prisons. He covered Barack Obama's first presidential campaign and a Hepatitis E epidemic in Nepal. In Rome, he documented how the Black Lives Matter movement echoed across the Atlantic. His work has aired on public television, screened at film festivals, and been exhibited at the 2025 Venice Biennale and the Philadelphia Art Museum. His clients include The New York Times, NPR, PBS, and The World Bank.

His honors include a Peabody, multiple RTNDA Edward R. Murrow awards, two regional Emmys, and a national Emmy nomination. He was named Editor of the Year by the White House News Photographers Association. He works in English, French, and Italian.